Stop tag abuse
Seriously, stop it. If you already don’t abuse tags, then you’re on the right track.
I honestly love a particular home school blog, but I’m constantly irritated by not being able to find what I need (which in a reasonable universe would actually be on the site and probably is) because the list of tags under a short post is 50% longer than the actual post.
It’s like the author picked every conceivable phrase that could possibly relate to home schooling and home education and made a list and then the author copy and pasted the whole list into the post tags box. Actually, I think that’s what might be going on.
Evil.
Cold relentless slimy evil.
You know why it’s evil? Because it tells me that the site is written to grab the attention of search engines but doesn’t really give a darn if actual people are able to use it. This makes me especially sad because I like the print magazine that this site is meant to pimp.
Tags help organize the site in a way that strict categories might not, so first and foremost tags should be for the actual humans to use.